Dan Powell, Emmy-winning co-creator and executive producer of Inside Amy Schumer, has signed a first-look deal with First Look Media to develop a variety of film, TV and digital projects.

The first project on the slate is The Nib, a short form animated series based on the political cartoon site of the same name…

Kurt Metzger, a former writer on Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central series Inside Amy Schumer, has clarified his comments about rape following a social media firestorm and tweets by Schumer condemning the remarks.

Schumer’s tweets last night, which suggested to some her series was not moving forward, were followed today with…

UPDATE, 8 AM: Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central series is not over, according to the actress/comedian, but the show is on an indefinite hiatus and there is no Season 5 “in the foreseeable future.” Schumer was clarifying her earlier Tweets that suggested the show was ending. Inside Amy Schumer was renewed for a fifth season…

In conjunction with its upfront presentation, Comedy Central over the past three days announced a slew of renewals as well as series and pilot pickups as part of extensive development slates for TV and Snapchat. They included two projects — a pilot and a script — produced by Comedy Central star Amy Schumer.

Schumer’s p…

Ahead of its Season 4 premiere in April, Comedy Central has renewed Inside Amy Schumer for a fifth go-round. The announcement was made today at the TCA Winter Press Tour in Pasadena.

“We are so excited to get picked up," said Schumer. "I’ve gotten picked up many times, but this time feels the best.”

A multiplatform hit…

Amy Schumer, comedy’s latest It girl, just nabbed the first Emmy win for best Variety Sketch Series, for her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer.

The TV Academy this year created best variety sketch series and best variety talk series, after years competing together in the best variety series derby. Talk shows had a…

Mirroring the trajectory of Vice President Selina Meyer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has taken home her 4th consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a comedy for Veep. The win, her fifth overall, ties her with Candice Bergen and Mary Tyler Moore for most wins ever in the category. She won for the final season four…

“If there had been a Rotten Tomatoes in 1601, he would have gotten a 73.” So WGAW Vice President Howard A. Rodman compared Shakespeare to television. What he meant is that the Bard in his day was, like television until rather recently, seriously underrated and disrespected. Things change, however, and now, so Rodman as…

Jessi Klein has been working in comedy for more than a decade, writing for such sketch-based series as Saturday Night Live, Michael & Michael Have Issues, and Kroll Show before signing on as head writer for Inside Amy Schumer, for which she just nabbed her third writing Emmy nomination (and fourth overall).

The writer-…

This year for the first time the previously combined Variety Talk and Sketch Series distinctions have been split up into two categories, meaning Saturday Night Live no longer will have to compete with the likes of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report or Late Show With David Letterman and get its ass whipped. But wait…

EXCLUSIVE: With Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer racking up seven Emmy noms today including a lead comedy actress nom for Schumer, chances are the comedian probably has popped the cork on a bottle of champagne. Well, she can start chilling another one.

Fandango reports that presales for Schumer’s R-rated comedy…

Inside Amy Schumer returned for a third season last night with its smallest opener crowd to date, but enjoyed a respectable boost compared to last season’s wrap-up.  An average of 1.006 million caught the season starter of Schumer’s critically adored comedy series; 449,000 aged 18-34, 745,000 18-49-year-olds, and…